
Peter Huber is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute writing on the issues of drug development, energy, technology, and the law. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes where he writes about issues regards science, technology, health care, and the energy industries.
His latest book, The Bottomless Well, co-authored with Mark Mills, examines energy technology and policy. Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books, 2000), called the richest contribution ever made to the greening of the political mind by William F. Buckley, Jr., sets out a new conservative manifesto on the environment which advocates a return to conservation and environmental policy based on sound science and market economics. In 1997 he authored two books, Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm, which is an examination of telecommunications policy (Oxford University Press) and (with the University of Pennsylvania's Kenneth Foster) Judging Science, Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts (MIT Press). Previous books include Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest, (Free Press, 1994), Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom (Perseus Book Group, 1991); and Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences (Basic Books, 1988).
In addition to these books, Huber is author of The Geodesic Network (U.S. Department of Justice, 1987), the report filed by the Department of Justice on the occasion of the 1987 review of the AT&T divestiture decree. He co-authored The Geodesic Network II: 1993 Report on Competition in the Telephone Industry (Geodesic Publishing, 1992); Federal Telecommunications Law (Little, Brown & Co., 1992) and Federal Telecommunications Law 2nd Edition (Aspen, 1999). He also co-edited Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT Press, 1993).
In addition to being a regular columnist in Forbes magazine, Huber has also published articles in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal, as well as many other publications, including Science, Wall Street Journal, Reason, Regulation, and National Review. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Face the Nation and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Before joining the Manhattan Institute, Huber served as an assistant and later associate professor at MIT for six years. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and then on the U.S. Supreme Court for Sandra Day O'Connor. Huber also serves as Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen and Todd.
Huber earned his law degree from Harvard University and a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He lives and works in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Articles/Op-eds
- Good Data Make Good Fences Forbes, 05-19-08
- Conflicted doctors Forbes, 04-07-08
- Techno-Optimism Forbes, 02-25-08
- Toyota's MPG game Forbes, 12-24-07
- Web 50.0 Forbes, 11-12-07
- How The New Medicine Renders Universal Health Care Impossible Investor's Business Daily, 10-29-07
- Blunder 2007 Forbes, 10-01-07
- Secure I.D.s and the Net Forbes, 08-13-07
- Smile, You're on Googcam Forbes, 07-02-07
- Cassandra v. Cassandra Forbes, 05-21-07
- The Coming Plague Wall Street Journal, 04-10-07
- Follow the Money Forbes, 04-09-07
- The Inegalitarian Web Forbes, 02-12-07
- Assignment: Wombats Forbes, 12-25-06
- Love Uranium Forbes, 11-27-06
- Anthrax and Lawyers Forbes, 10-16-06
- Vaccines Are Scarce. Why? Forbes, 9-4-06
- The Patient's Right to Know Forbes, 7-24-06
- Of Pills and Profits: In Defense of Big Pharma Commentary, July/August 2006
- The Forest killers Forbes, 4-10-06
- Who Pays For Speed? Forbes, 2-27-06
- Crude Awakening The Wall Street Journal, 2-3-06
- Gouging The Drug Companies Forbes, 12-12-05
- It's the End of Oil / Oil Is Here to Stay By Kenneth Deffeyes and Peter Huber, Time, 10-31-05
- Thermodynamics And Money Forbes, 10-31-05
- Getting Over Oil by Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills, Commentary, 9-05
- Sniffing Backpacks Forbes, 8-15-05
- the end of the m.e.? American Society of Mechanical Engineering Magazine, 5-05
- $3 Gas? We'll Shrug It Off Forbes, 5-9-05
- Heavy Iron = Energy Independence By Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills, New York Sun, 4-7-05
- A Power Portfolio By Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills, Forbes, 4-11-05
- Data in Motion Forbes, 2-14-05
- The Art of Energy: The future will not be painted in oil. By Peter Huber and Mark Mills, Slate.com, 2-1-05
- Oil, Oil, Everywhere . . . by Peter Huber and Mark Mills, Wall Street Journal, 1-27-05
- The Virtue of Waste Forbes, 12-13-04
- Crossed Wires Forbes.com, 10-18-04
- Blueprint for the Earth Forbes Magazine, 9-20-04
- Truck-Size Transistors Forbes, 7-26-04
- Dig More Coal, The Hybrids Are Coming with Mark P. Mills, Forbes, 5-24-04
- Reflections on a Master Forbes, 4-26-04
- Trading on Secrecy Forbes, 3-29-04
- Medicine Gets Cheaper Forbes, 3-1-04
- Attack of the 'Cuisinart' Regulators Wall Street Journal, 2-26-04
- Data on the Move Forbes, 12-22-03
- Going Private Forbes 10-12-03
- Brawn & Brains by Peter Huber and Mark Mills, Forbes, 9-15-03
- Al Qaeda and the ACLU Forbes, 8-11-04
- Don't close Indian Point by Peter Huber and Mark Mills, NY Daily News, 7-20-03
- The Biosniffers Are Coming Forbes, 6-23-03
- The PalmPilot-JDAM Complex Forbes, 5-12-03
- Military-Industrial Complex, 2003 Forbes, 5-12-03
- Panic and Terrorism Forbes, 3-31-03
- Forget Federalism Deregulate the phones. National Review Online, 2-18-03
- Buy (some) utilities by Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills, Forbes, 2-17-03
- Telecom undone—a cautionary tale Commentary, January 2003
- That’s Showbiz Forbes, 1-6-03
- Antitrust’s Real Legacy Wall Street Journal, 12-26-02
- Gasoline and the Grid Forbes, 11-25-02
- A Brave New Digital World Forbes, 10-14-02
- Making coal green Forbes, 7-8-02
- Washington Created WorldCom Wall Street Journal, 7-1-02
- Deregulation Will Survive Enron by Mark Mills and Peter Huber, The Wall Street Journal, 12-6-01
- The Efficiency Paradox Forbes, August 20, 2001
- It's Time for Greens to Go Nuclear Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2001
- Spread the Wealth Forbes, March 19, 2001
- Got a Computer? More Power to You. by Peter Huber and Mark Mills, The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2000
- Al Gore Is No Conservationist The Washington Post, April 21, 2000
- Running Strong National Review, April 17, 2000
- Is a Breakup Next? Not Likely. The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2000
- Six Acres and a Deere Forbes, March 20, 2000
- A Green Manifesto Forbes, January 24, 2000
- The Death of Old Media The Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2000
- The Bug That Didn't Bark The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2000
- How Non-Green Cities Are Rebuilding the American Forests LA Times, By Peter Huber, Mark Mills, December 29, 1999
- Ecological Eugenics The Wall Street Journal, December 20, 1999
- Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do The Wall Street Journal, November 10, 1999
- Fear Nature, Not Technology The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, August 18, 1999
- Guns, Tobacco, Big Macs—and the courts Commentary, June 1999
- Tires, Bees And Expertise The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 1, 1999
- Saving The Environment From The Environmentalists Commentary, Vol. 105 - April 1998 - No. 4
Testimony
Books
- The Bottomless Well: The twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste and Why we will Never Run Out Of Energy (Basic Books, 2005)
- Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books, January 2000)
- Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts (MIT Press, May 1997)
- Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm (Oxford University Press, 1997)
- The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Little Brown, January 1996)
- Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest (The Free Press, 1994)
- Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT Press, June 1993)
- Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom (Perseus Book Group, August 1991)
- The Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and Innovation (Brookings Institution Press, July 1991)
- Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences (Basic Books, 1988)
City Journal articles
- Cherry Garcia and the End of Socialized Medicine, Autumn 2007
- Germs and the City, Spring 2007
- Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power, Winter 2005
- Can Terrorists Turn Out Gothams Lights?, Autumn 2004
- How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism, Winter 2002
- How Cities Green the Planet, Winter 2000
- Gothams Hidden Infrastructure Boom, Spring 1998
- Telecosm NYC, Summer 1997
- New York, Capital of the Information Age, Winter 1995
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